“Every team there’s a guy they want to kind of place the blame on. It would be Dion on our team,” James said. “I told him, ‘You can’t get involved in that or what people say about you. It’s not what people think of you it’s what you think of yourself.’

“The only way to rewrite the notion of, ‘Can Dion fit in this?’ is to play the right way and dominate his opposition every single night. That’s all he should worry about.”

James has heard the same “Can Kyrie and Dion co-exist?” questions everyone has been asking since the Cavs selected Waiters fourth overall in 2012. James believes they can. […] “You’ve got two guys who love to play the game of basketball,” James said. “They’re gym rats and they love to compete. It’s not hard for them to mesh.”